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(521-597) - Lecture 2 – ‘Prince and Exile’

1. Dal Riata and the Irish/ Church becoming Christian Tribes (Tuaths) – Ui Neill Colony of Dal Riata in ()

2. Columba leaving Ireland 563 – arrival in a curragh. Amra Choluimb Cille, Columba’s ‘soft grey eye.’

3. The years in Ireland Fedlimid & Eithne Entrusted to church care – Finnian of Molville – Gemman of – Finnian of Clonard Founding of , 546 – 15/16 years founding 100/300 ‘churches/’

4. How do we solve a problem like Columba? Plagiarise theory & High King Diarmait Battle of Cul Drebene (560) - of Teltown (561)

5. Arriving in Scotland & King Conall of (Scottish) Dal Riata Conall became King after 559 – following Gabrain’s defeat at hands of Conall a beleaguered monarch Meeting at Dunadd?

6. Unknown, but possibly , ( for Isle of the ) in the , just off the south coast of Mull. Columba may have first landed at Southend, and then sailed up to Hinba.

7. Adomnan’s ‘Life of Columba’  Book One: ‘Of his Prophetic Revelation’.  Book Two: ‘Of his Miraculous Powers’.  Book Three: ‘Of his Visions of Angels’.

8. Other Ancient Sources Columba - Dallan Forgaill – Beccan - Cummene

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Columba (521-597) - Lecture 2 – ‘Prince and Exile’

PRIMARY TEXTS Adomnan, Life of Columba, (London: Penguin, 1995: trans., Richard Sharpe). , Ecclesiastical History of the English People, (trans. Leo Sherley-Price: London: Penguin, Revised edition 1990). Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone: A Celtic Miscellany, (London: Penguin, 1971). MacQuarrie, Alan (ed.): Legends of Scottish Saints: Readings, and Prayers for the commemorations of Scottish saints in the Aberdeen Breviary, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012) Warren, F. E (ed.): The of Bangor (Antiphonarium Benchorense): An Early Irish in the Ambrosian Library at , Part II, (London: Harrison, 1895).

GENERAL WRITINGS Bardsley, Warren, Against the Tide: The Story of Adomnan of , (Glasgow: Wild Goose, 2006). Broun, David & Clancy, Thomas Owen: Spes Scotorum, Hope of Scots: Columba, Iona and Scotland, (: T&T Clark, 1999). Bradley, Ian, Columba: and Penitent, (Glasgow: Wild Goose, 1996). Bradley, Ian, Argyll: The Making of a Spiritual Landscape, (Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 2015). Burleigh, James, A Church , (London: OUP, 1960). Clancy, Thomas Owen, & Markus, Gilbert: Iona: The Earliest Poetry of a Celtic , (Edinburgh: EUP, 1995). Donaldson, Gordon, The Faith of the Scots, (London: Batsford, 1990). Finlay, Ian, Columba, (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979). Foster, Sally M: Picts, and Scots, (London: Batsford, 1996). Fraser, James E., From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795: NEHS, Vol. 1, (Edinburgh: EUP, 2009). Hill, Peter: and : The Excavation of a Monastic Town 1984-91, (Stroud: Sutton, 1997). Hunter, Fraser; Painter, Kenneth, Late Roman Silver: The Traprain Treasure in Context, (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2013). MacLauchlan, Thomas: The Early Scottish Church: The Ecclesiastical History of Scotland from the First to the Twelfth Century, (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1865; reprint Forgotten Books, 2015) MacLeod, John: Banner in the West, (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2009). MacNaught, John C: The Celtic Church and the See of Peter, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1927). MacQuarrie, Alan: ‘Early in Scotland: The Age of Saints’, in: MacLean & Veitch (eds.), Scottish Life and Society: Volume 12: Religion, (Edinburgh: Donald, 2006). MacQuarrie, Alan: The Saints of Scotland: Essays in Scottish Church History AD 450-1093, (Edinburgh: Donald, 1997). Meek, Donald E: The Quest for , (Edinburgh: Handsel, 2000). Randall, John (ed.): In Search of Colmcille: The Legacy of St. Columba in Ireland and Scotland, (Laxay: , Islands Book Trust, 2015). Simpson, W. Douglas: The Historical Saint Columba, (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 3rd Edition 1963). Warren, F. E: The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church, (Oxford: Clarendon, 1881). Woolf, Alexander: From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070: NEHS, Vol. 2, (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007).

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